independence
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Noun (3)
- freedom from control or influence of another or othersSynonyms: independencyType of freedomKinds autonomy, separateness, autarkyAttribute of dependent, independent
- the successful ending of the American Revolution“they maintained close relations with England even after independence”Type of victory, triumph
- a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe TrailInstance of city, metropolisPart of Missouri, Show Me State
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Translations
Noun state or quality of being independent
- Spanish
- independencia
- French
- indépendance
- German
- Unabhängigkeit
- Italian
- indipendenza
- Portuguese
- independência
- Turkish
- bağımsızlık
- Russian
- незави́симость nezavísimostʹ
- Arabic
- اِسْتِقْلَال istiqlāl
- Chinese
- 独立 dúlì
- Japanese
- 独立 dokuritsu
28 more languages
- Dutch
- onafhankelijkheid
- Polish
- niepodległość
- Swedish
- självständighet
- Greek
- ανεξαρτησία anexartisía
- Korean
- 독립 dongnip
- Indonesian
- kemerdekaan
- Vietnamese
- độc lập
- Hungarian
- függetlenség
- Portuguese (PT)
- independência
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 獨立 dúlì
- Albanian
- pavarësi
- Catalan
- independència
- Czech
- nezávislost
- Danish
- uafhængighed
- Esperanto
- sendependeco
- Estonian
- iseseisvus
- Finnish
- itsenäisyys
- Georgian
- დამოუკიდებლობა damouḳidebloba
- Hebrew
- עַצְמָאוּת atsmaút
- Icelandic
- sjálfstæði
- Kurdish
- serbixwetî
- Latvian
- neatkarība
- Lithuanian
- nepriklausomybė
- Norwegian
- uavhengighet
- Romanian
- independență
- Serbo-Croatian
- nezavisnost
- Slovak
- nezávislosť
- Welsh
- annibyniaeth
Noun financial self-sufficiency
- Spanish
- independencia
- German
- Unabhängigkeit
- Italian
- indipendenza
- Portuguese
- independência
- Turkish
- bağımsızlık
- Russian
- незави́симость nezavísimostʹ
- Arabic
- استقلال istiqlāl
- Japanese
- 独立 dokuritsu
- Dutch
- zelfstandigheid
- Polish
- niezależność
13 more languages
- Greek
- ανεξαρτησία anexartisía
- Korean
- 자립 jarip
- Indonesian
- kemandirian
- Hungarian
- önállóság
- Portuguese (PT)
- independência
- Czech
- nezávislost
- Danish
- uafhængighed
- Estonian
- sõltumatus
- Finnish
- riippumattomuus
- Icelandic
- sjálfstæði
- Latvian
- neatkarība
- Norwegian
- uavhengighet
- Romanian
- independență
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. indépendance.
1. The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
Let fortune do her worst,... as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.— Alexander Pope
2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
Declaration of Independence Amer. Hist., the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54